Tuesday, May 29, 2012

I have chosen today to show you how I colour the wood of a tree. I have aimed this at beginners and am using the Make It Crafty Tree image which already has some of the shading area highlighted for you. As I prepared this tutorial I had selected E29, E25 and E53, but you will notice as we go through the tutorial that I added E50 to the mix.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Today I'll show you how to color with two contrasting colors. An apple for instance isn't always just green or just red, aren't the green ones with the red blushes the best looking? Here is how I color those:

Step 2: Now I decide where I want the apple to be green, I now color this part of the apple with YG01.
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Schritt 2: Nun entscheide ich, wo der Apfel grün sein soll und coloriere diesen Bereich mit YG01.

Step 3: Next I start at the darkest areas of the apple. I color those with just a little bit of YG17.
***Schritt 3: Als nächstes beginne ich an den dunkelsten Stellen des Apfels und coloriere sie mit nur einem bißchen YG17.

Step 8: Now I color the part of the apple I want to have the red blush with YR00/
***Schritt 8: Nun coloriere ich den Bereich des Apfels, der rot sein soll, mit YR00.

Step 9: Again starting in the darkest area of the red part of the apple I put down a bit of R05. Later on I decided that R05 was to light for me so I went in again with R08, to make things easier you could start with just a bit of R08 in this stage and then take the R05.
***Schritt 9: Ich beginne wieder im dunkelsten roten Bereich des Apfels und trage etwas R05 auf. Später habe ich beschlossen, dass mir R05 zu hell war und so habe ich mit R08 nochmal über die Stelle gemalt. Um es einfacher zu haben könnt Ihr nur ein bißchen R08 auftragen und dann mit R05 weiterarbeiten.

Step 10: Just as with the green go from dark to light, this time with the YR04.
***Schritt 10: Wie beim grünen Bereich auch, arbeitet von dunkel nach hell, diesmal mit YR04.

The roses have been colored with tiny dots. This makes it easier to color them and also adds a natural look by having dark and light areas.

For the jeans I went from a very dark blue to a very light one. They look natural colored like this because if you have a look at your own jeans they are dark at the seams and light on the areas over and under the knees.

The background around the image has been made using different shades of light blue to give it a look like sky. I started with a darker shade around the image and went lighter the further away I got.

I usually colour from light to dark when I colour hair. It works best for me.Others like to colour from dark to light. The important thing is that you have fun with your way of colouring.***Normalerweise coloriere ich Haare von hell nach dunkel. Das fällt mir am leichtesten. Andere colorieren lieber von dunkel nach hell. Wichtig ist, dass Euch Euer Weg zu colorieren Spaß macht.

I think this combination is well known to those who have had Copics for a while. I use this a lot when colouring light blonde hair.***Ich denke, diese Kombination ist all denen sehr gut bekannt, die ihre Copics schon eine Weile haben. Ich verwende diese Kombi oft für hellblondes Haar.